{"id":41357,"date":"2022-02-04T18:10:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T09:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/04\/india-coronavirus-death-toll-passes-500000"},"modified":"2022-02-04T18:10:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T09:10:53","slug":"indias-coronavirus-death-toll-passes-500000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41357","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s coronavirus death toll passes 500,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say underreporting of cases across country means toll likely to be far higher than official count<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>India\u2019s official death toll from Covid-19 has passed 500,000, even as many experts flag underreporting of cases across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The daily update from the country\u2019s federal health ministry on Friday showed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2022\/feb\/04\/covid-live-blog-india-deaths-pass-500000-canada-rules-out-military-response-to-vaccine-protests?filterKeyEvents=false&amp;page=with:block-61fcb62a8f08df1d7f090565#block-61fcb62a8f08df1d7f090565\">number of deaths reaching 500,055<\/a>, up 1,072 in the previous 24 hours. Total infections stood at 41.9 million, according to the statistics, second only to the US.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/04\/india-coronavirus-death-toll-passes-500000\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say underreporting of cases across country means toll likely to be far higher than official countCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIndia\u2019s official death toll from Covid-19 has passed 500,000, even as many experts flag&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1066,62,914,299,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-india","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41358,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41357\/revisions\/41358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}